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Word: cubano (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...robbery. Behind Gerena and the Macheteros, says the FBI, is Fidel Castro. The agency believes that Gerena fled to Cuba with much of the Wells Fargo booty. Ojenda-Rios is also thought to have worked closely with Cuba's intelligence agency: in San Juan, his nickname is G-2 Cubano...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hartford: Blunted Machetes | 9/16/1985 | See Source »

...trade and financial center. And the Cuban advance guard created a cosmopolitan atmosphere in which the new arrivals can feel culturally at home: in Miami's Little Havana, Spanish is the predominant language, and at almost every corner there is a stand selling the dark, strong café cubano...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Welcome Wears Thin | 9/1/1980 | See Source »

Several hundred Cuban refugees are already starting a new life. In the neighboring towns of Union City and West New York, N.J., many storefront signs are written in Spanish, and men sit in restaurants sipping cafe cubano. With 69,000 immigrants, many of whom fled here in the 1960s, this area has the largest Cuban community in the U.S. outside Miami, and many of the established exiles have opened their homes to the newcomers. "I never thought that Castro would let us go," says Ricardo Colas Estrada, 22, who spent seven days waiting in the Peruvian embassy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Happy to Wash Dishes | 5/19/1980 | See Source »

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